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Christopher Klamm 🏔️
@cklamm.bsky.social
👨‍🔬 NLProc & CSS (UMannheim, UCologne & OxCPS group)
🚀 http://tada.cool co-organizer
🎓 MSc CS & MA PolSci
✨ rhetoric, framing & open science
👣 prev. MZES, BigScience, UKPlab & COSS_eth
🌲 https://linktr.ee/chkla
What a great initiative and research program 👩🏽‍🔬 by the Oxford Computational Political Science Group this year, and I am more than happy to be part of it and contribute to CPS in this setting. Check out the ongoing projects www.politics.ox.ac.uk/oxford-compu.... A lot to come 🚀
January 24, 2026 at 8:47 PM
✨ We (w/ Bastián González-Bustamante & Steffen Eckhard) are excited to announce a special issue on “From Appendix to Spotlight: Validation Standards in Text-as-Data Political Science" in PS: Political Science & Politics. We’d love to see many of you submit. 🗓 Nov 1, 2026 apsanet.org/publications...
Calls for Papers - American Political Science Association (APSA)
Please find active calls for papers for PS: Political Science and Politics below.PS: Political Science & Politics features timely,
apsanet.org
January 24, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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The Call for Papers and Panels for #COMPTEXT2026 in Birmingham (23-25 April) is out; feel free to circulate: shorturl.at/gRg0p!
Deadline: January 16!
December 17, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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CfP for COMPTEXT is now out. If you work on computational text/images/video, this conference is for you!

It is a great opportunity, especially for early career scholars.

We look forward to welcoming you in Birmingham ☺️
The Call for Papers and Panels for #COMPTEXT2026 in Birmingham (23-25 April) is out; feel free to circulate: shorturl.at/gRg0p!
Deadline: January 16!
December 17, 2025 at 10:31 AM
🚨 Join us next Wednesday (🗓️ Nov 26, 🕔 5pm Berlin time) for an exciting session 🥳. @khaoulache.bsky.social will present co-authored work on "Beyond the Safety Bundle: Auditing the Helpful and Harmless Dataset".

If you'd like to join, please sign up for the mailing TADA.cool or send us a message.
November 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Very excited to announce the next term of the TADA speaker series!

This term revolves around the validity of LLM generated data in the Social Sciences. We have a set of four great speakers to enlighten us on different aspects of this issue.

If you'd like to join, sign up here: TADA.cool
October 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Mark your calendars! 🚨 We look forward to @cc-tp.bsky.social joining us for the last talk before the ☀️ break! Next Wednesday, May 28, at 17:00 (CEST) she will talk about detecting gender biased norms in political speech. More details on the #TaDa Speaker Series & how to join the talk ⬇️
The #TaDa Speaker Series is back for the spring 🎉 We're looking forward to an exciting line-up of talks by @prashantgarg.bsky.social, @miriamschirmer.bsky.social, @chdausgaard.bsky.social, @taniseceron.bsky.social, @lukashetzer.bsky.social, and Catarina Pereira! More infos at tada.cool & on Slack ⬇️
May 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
🚨 Just a month until the CPSS deadline (June 13, AoE). Super excited for the upcoming round and can’t wait to see your submissions ✨
Remember the deadline for the CPSS (Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences) #KONVENS2025 is approaching! And also: besides archival submissions which will appear in the ACL anthology, we also have ...
Interested in the application of NLP to research questions form the Political and Social Sciences? This is the workshop for you! CPSS at #KONVENS2025 cpss-sig.github.io/CPSS-2025/cf... . Archival papers in the ACL anthology, deadline: June 13th!
May 19, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Deadline extension! By the 10th of May submit an abstract and join us for the first "Validating Social Text-as-Data Methods" workshop at #ICWSM
🕵️‍♀️ Join us for the first "Validating Social Text-as-Data Method" workshop (June 23, 2025, Copenhagen) at ICWSM sites.google.com/view/valista...
May 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
🕔 We're excited to start in just 30 minutes (5pm Berlin time). Come join us for a fascinating talk by @taniseceron.bsky.social on "Evaluating Political Bias: Insights into Robustness and Multilinguality". We can’t wait to see many of you there ⬇️
The #TaDa Speaker Series is back for the spring 🎉 We're looking forward to an exciting line-up of talks by @prashantgarg.bsky.social, @miriamschirmer.bsky.social, @chdausgaard.bsky.social, @taniseceron.bsky.social, @lukashetzer.bsky.social, and Catarina Pereira! More infos at tada.cool & on Slack ⬇️
April 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Curious about mastering text analysis using computational methods? 🧑‍💻📊 This summer, I’m teaching an introductory course at the @methodsnet.bsky.social Summer School at @weareceu.bsky.social in Vienna. Would be nice to see you there!
Registrations NOW OPEN for MethodsNET Summer School 2025 with CEU! @weareceu.bsky.social

📍 Vienna, Austria | June 30 – July 18, 2025
Hands-on research methods training in case-based, quantitative, big data & more!

15% Early Bird discount available until March 11!
Register now: bit.ly/4gLbv9V
February 27, 2025 at 9:46 AM
I would be happy to see many from #COMPTEXT at our workshop VaLiSTAD in Copenhagen @ ICWSM in June to discuss the validation of social science TADA/ML methods (🔜 abstract deadline May 5). Please feel free to say hi and ask me or @indiiigo.bsky.social about this new workshop format ⬇️
🕵️‍♀️ Join us for the first "Validating Social Text-as-Data Method" workshop (June 23, 2025, Copenhagen) at ICWSM sites.google.com/view/valista...
April 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Fantastic first day at #COMPTEXT2025. Really enjoyed spreading the word about efficient LLMs 🌱✨🦙 in our workshop (w/ Julia Romberg) today. Many thanks to everyone who joined us 💚. Excited for more packed conference days ahead 🚀
Afternoon workshops at #COMPTEXT2025 wrapped up with in-depth sessions on narrative analysis, researcher access under the DSA, concept measurement, and efficient LLM training. Thanks to @mariaa.bsky.social, @dscheykopp.bsky.social, @haukelicht.bsky.social, @cklamm.bsky.social and all participants!
April 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
🔜 𝐀𝐈 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 will also be in Albuquerque at LaTeCH-CLfL2025 (@NAACL) next week. If you’re around, say hi to Quirin who will be there and check out our latest work (May 4, 09:00-17:30) ⬇️
AI Conversational Interviewing: Transforming Surveys with LLMs as Adaptive Interviewers
arxiv.org/abs/2410.01824

Now accepted at LaTeCH-CLfL2025 🥳✨

🧵 on our experimental and multi-modul follow-up project below
April 22, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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AI Conversational Interviewing: Transforming Surveys with LLMs as Adaptive Interviewers
arxiv.org/abs/2410.01824

Now accepted at LaTeCH-CLfL2025 🥳✨

🧵 on our experimental and multi-modul follow-up project below
March 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
🥁 It's the second half of our 🌱 speaker series (tada.cool) this term, and we couldn't be more excited! Next week (Wednesday, April 30 at 5pm CET), we have the pleasure of welcoming @taniseceron.bsky.social to share insights on "Facilitating Information Access Through Language Models". More details ⬇️
The #TaDa Speaker Series is back for the spring 🎉 We're looking forward to an exciting line-up of talks by @prashantgarg.bsky.social, @miriamschirmer.bsky.social, @chdausgaard.bsky.social, @taniseceron.bsky.social, @lukashetzer.bsky.social, and Catarina Pereira! More infos at tada.cool & on Slack ⬇️
April 21, 2025 at 10:38 AM
🕵️‍♀️ Join us for the first "Validating Social Text-as-Data Method" workshop (June 23, 2025, Copenhagen) at ICWSM sites.google.com/view/valista...
April 17, 2025 at 9:55 PM
🚀 Excited to announce that I’ll be teaching a course on "Large Language Models - Tune and Train Your Own Models" @methodsnet.bsky.social in Vienna from July 14-18 🤖💡 If you’re interested in adjusting LLMs for your tasks, this is for you. Can’t wait for an exciting week.
March 17, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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🚨 #Data alert 📣 We just released #ParlLawSpeech – full texts of more than 40k bills, 28k laws, and 3 mio. parliamentary speeches from 7 countries (AT, CZ, DE, DK, ES, HR, HU) and the EU! If you study democracy with #TextAsData / #NLP methods, this is for you! A short 🧵 (1/3) #PoliSkyData #polisky
February 13, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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The TADA Speaker Series is thrilled to welcome @prashantgarg.bsky.social from @ucl.ac.uk to present his research on causal claims in economics!

🎙 Prashant Garg: Causal Claims in Economics
📅 March 19, 2025 | 🕔 17:00 Berlin Time
🔗 Subscribe for details: tada.cool

See you next week!
TADA RG
TADA ✨ Initiative
tada.cool
March 13, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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The #TaDa Speaker Series is back for the spring 🎉 We're looking forward to an exciting line-up of talks by @prashantgarg.bsky.social, @miriamschirmer.bsky.social, @chdausgaard.bsky.social, @taniseceron.bsky.social, @lukashetzer.bsky.social, and Catarina Pereira! More infos at tada.cool & on Slack ⬇️
March 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Reminder that we are looking for papers using LLMs for humanities research, for a special issue of the Computational Humanities Research Journal.

Deadline January 31st!

#NLP #DigitalHumanities #CulturalAnalytics
Expanding the Toolkit: Large Language Models in Humanities Research
Call for Papers: Expanding the Toolkit: Large Language Models in Humanities Research.
www.cambridge.org
January 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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I had a great time at the Spring School last year! I learned a bunch and met many great young researchers during my stay @cklamm.bsky.social @winstonlee.bsky.social @lukasrae.bsky.social @cwinkler.bsky.social And all of that in a scenic location!
Applications are now open for the 2025 Oxford Spring School in Advanced Research Methods!
📅Monday 31 March to Friday 4 April 2025.
In-person in Oxford or Online
New courses for 2025 include Time Series Analysis and Large Language Models!
Apply here: ow.ly/luoR50Uqwll
December 13, 2024 at 11:50 AM
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📣Reminder: 7 more days to apply to our 'Methods of Political Science' Conference in Mannheim in March 2025.📣

sosci.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/mzes-dvpw-me...

#polisky
December 9, 2024 at 11:14 AM
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🚨 NeurIPS 2024 Spotlight
Did you know we lack standards for AI benchmarks, despite their role in tracking progress, comparing models, and shaping policy? 🤯 Enter BetterBench–our framework with 46 criteria to assess benchmark quality: betterbench.stanford.edu 1/x
November 25, 2024 at 7:02 PM